DIEV ET MON DROIT.  
HONI ✚ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Y ✚ PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation touching the Sealing of Tobacco.  
WHereas We (by the advice of Our Commissioners for Our Revenue) have resolved to import a quantity of Spanish Tobacco (not exceeding fifty thousand weight in any one year) and utterly to prohibit the importation of any other foreign Tobacco, which is not of the growth of Our own Plantations, and to prohibit also the planting of all Tobacco within these Our Realms of England and Ireland, and Islands there to belonging or adjacent, As by Our Proclamation, dated the seventeenth day of February last (for the reasons therein expressed) it doth at large appear: Now, because We are informed, that it will much conduce to Our Service, and the settling of that business, for the preventing of the stealing in of all foreign Tobacco, and discovery of the offenders, and for the clearing of all others, who are not offenders, from future trouble, that all the Tobacco of the growth of Our plantations already imported, shallbe sealed by Our Commissioners to that purpose appointed, aswell as that which shallbe hereafter imported, in such sort as by our said Proclamation is already directed, That so the Tobacco of Our Plantations may be distinguished from the foreign Tobacco, and the Tobacco planted within these Our Realms, which are prohibited: Our will and command therefore is, and we do hereby declare & publish Our Royal pleasure to be, That Our said Commissioners appointed by Us for this Service, shall with all convenient speed, Seal all the Tobacco of the growth of Our said Plantations already imported in such sort, as they are directed to Seal that which shall be hereafter imported.  
And if any person whatsoever, having any such Tobacco, of the growth of Our said Plantations, or any of them, which shall refuse to have the same Sealed, or which shall not offer the same to be Sealed, as aforesaid, and the same shall hereafter, at any time after one month, from the date hereof, be discovered, that the same shall be taken and reputed for foreign Tobacco, or for Tobacco of the growth of these Our Realms, which hath been prohibited, and which they durst not avow the keeping of, and as such Prohibited Tobacco shall be taken, and seized as other prohibited Tobacco, according to the Tenor and true meaning of Our said former Proclamation, whereof We will, that every person, whom it may concern, do take notice at their peril.  
Given at Our Court at White-Hall, the thirtieth day of March, in the third year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON and JOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY. M. DC. XXVII.